prisons

How Prisoners Practice Tobacco Harm Reduction, With No Vapes

Harm reduction can always be practiced, regardless of whether you have government approval and specially designed products. I know this…

November 4, 2024

Confronting GA’s Practice of Housing Trans Women in Men’s Prisons

[Read Part 1 of this series here] One of the first things that happens upon entry into the Georgia Department…

October 31, 2024

Photographing the Community on Tennessee’s Death Row

From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the Tennessee prison that houses death row for…

October 29, 2024

A Death Row Pastor’s View of Executions

From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, the site of death row…

October 21, 2024

GA Parole-Eligible Lifers Are Headed to the Private Prison Aftercare Industry

Of the 51,284 people currently incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, 7,937 people are serving life with parole.…

October 18, 2024

Maryland Cancels Supervision, Drug-Testing Debt for Everyone on Parole

Maryland has canceled the more than $13 million in debt that residents on parole owed for unpaid supervision or drug-testing…

October 10, 2024

Banning Prison Visitors From Vaping Is Unjustified and Harmful

Washington State is one of only four in the nation to allow what are commonly called conjugal visits. These Extended…

October 7, 2024

DOJ Investigation Found Horrors in Georgia Prisons. It Missed a Lot, Too.

Four years after the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into the whether the Georgia Department of…

October 3, 2024

Some Thoughts on Dying in Prison

Over the course of my nearly 30 years in Tennessee Department of Correction custody, I've seen many friends die painlessly.…

October 2, 2024

Prisoners Need Civilian Review Boards, Too

Toward the end of my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody I was a clerk in the Central…

October 1, 2024